The Vatican has jumped into the always-controversial game of naming the Top 10 rock albums of all time. This "desert island" list, compiled by the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, starts with The Beatles — a relatively uncontroversial pick. But things quickly get interesting:

It's a solid, surprisingly liberal list: "I own all but one of the albums," says Carrie Quinlan in The Guardian. "And strangely, that doesn't trouble me." The list has some trippy, "ungodly" gems: David Crosby? He's "fathered children for a lesbian couple" and written about "an acid trip in Winchester Cathedral." Kudos to the Pope "for being a bit liberal.""Revealed: the Vatican's favourite bands"

The list's a farce: Get real — can anyone "really imagine [Pope Benedict] chilling to the stoney jams of Crosby?" asks Gustavo Turner in LA Weekly. The albums aren't "the Pope's Top 10," as some "lazy journalists" will tell you. It's just a "random list by some overworked, underpaid, MOJO-subscribing middle-aged Italian journalists." The pope's real playlist would lead with "something macabre by Bach.""'Beatles are Bigger than David Crosby,' Says the Vatican"